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In Every Generation

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In Every Generation

 North Coast Repertory Theatre| 25th annual Lipinsky San Diego Jewish Arts Festival
June 18, 2018

Written by Ali Viterbi

Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt

Eva Trieger’s article in the San Diego Jewish World: “Viterbi’s IN EVERY GENERATION debates Jewish Questions”

“…The dialogue is tender and honest, and the fact that the readers learned so much Italian and Hebrew is most impressive!..This is quite an accomplishment for a writer so young.The show’s focus on miracles and inquiry makes for an interesting dichotomy. Luckily, as Jews, we’re allowed to question. I left the theater with several questions and few answers. However, I think that in order to seek resolution, I will have to look to our past, evaluate the present, and speculate about the future.  I think that’s what Ali Viterbi had in mind when she wrote this provocative script.”

The rest of the glowing review can be found here!

 

In Every Generation

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In Every Generation

Monday, June 18 @ 7:30pm

North Coast Repertory Theatre| Lipinsky San Diego Jewish Arts Festival | San Diego, CA

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt

After a successful staged reading at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference on June 15, IN EVERY GENERATION is coming to the North Coast Repertory Theatre as part of the 25th annual Lipinsky San Diego Jewish Arts Festival.

IN EVERY GENERATION is a mystical journey through continents, languages and generations of a family and nation’s stories. An Italian Jewish family joins together for Passover Seders year after year, era to era. Over matzah ball soup and (vegan) brisket, sibling rivalries simmer, plagues fall, and miracles are both remembered and forgotten. IN EVERY GENERATION asks what happens to a people once they are no longer in danger? How does a community collectively adjust to freedom?

Tickets can be purchased here. For more info about the show, see the article on Broadway World here.

Tickets: $22 | NCRT subscribers $17

A glowing review of the reading can be found here!

9th Annual Women of Valor

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9th Annual Women of Valor

June 7 @ 7:30pm and June 10 @ 1pm and 3pm

Lyceum Space & Encinitas Library | San Diego REP | San Diego, CA

By Ali Viterbi, Todd Salovey, Leah Salovey, and Rebecca Myers

Directed by Ali Viterbi and Leah Salovey

Produced by Ali Viterbi (Associate Producer of the 25th Annual Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival)

A completely new version of the Festival’s yearly celebration of the lives and inspiration of six of San Diego’s most incredible Jewish women. With music, visuals, and a world premiere script, “Women of Valor” is a staged reading that will touch the heart with laughter, drama, and inspiration. This year’s women include: Evelyn Rady, Jill Spitzer, Marsha Berkson, Sura Leider, Ruth Sax, and Dr. Ellen Beck.

Proceeds benefit Chesed Home, Torah High School and Project Sarah.

Co-sponsored by Jewish Family Service of San Diego

“A woman of valor, who shall find?/ She is more precious than pearls…/ Give her the fruits of her hand/ And let her be praised/ In the gates by her very own deeds” –Proverbs

JOSHUA (UC San Diego’s Wagner New Play Festival 2018)

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JOSHUA

May 12, 16, 17, 18 @ 7:30pm, May 19 @ 10:30am

UC San Diego | 

Wagner New Play Festival |

A new play by Ali Viterbi

Directed by Vanessa Stalling

The Wagner New Play Festival features world-premiere productions written by the talented MFA playwrights and directed, acted, stage-managed and designed by the nationally acclaimed MFA companies. The plays represent some of the most original and groundbreaking new voices in American theatre. JOSHUA will be performed as part of the MFA One Acts, at the Arthur Wagner Theatre, along with fellow MFA first-years Dave Harris’ “Tambo and Bones” and Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s “The Clitorish.”

Joshua Synopsis: Anya’s boyfriend was Caleb’s best friend. To commemorate the one-year anniversary of his death, Anya and Caleb ditch school to go to the desert. And maybe fall in love. And maybe conjure a ghost. JOSHUA looks at that moment in time where life moves us from a place of youth and innocence into the place that will shape our adult selves. As we look back, how do we reconcile the missed opportunities, the things we didn’t say, the paths we didn’t take? And will they even matter to our older selves?

For more information, check out this press release!

CineStory Quarterfinalist

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CineStory TV Fellowship Quarterfinalist

February 2017

Ali’s pilot “44 Steps” was a quarterfinalist of the 2018 CineStory TV/Digital Fellowship in the Original Drama Devision. “44 Steps” is a one-hour legal drama about the personal and professional challenges that face five Supreme Court Justices’ clerks. When conservative Justice Seranno unexpectedly dies from a heart attack, the nation pauses to mourn. The Supreme Court Justice’s clerks, however, have no time to pause. Esther, Zac, Issi, Charlotte, and Jayden- the nation’s most ambitious and promising young legal minds- must scramble to influence a currently tied vote while fighting to keep their jobs in the wake of the Justice’s vacancy.